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Participle phrase question
I. Present Participle or Perfect Participle.
OP's query is about choosing the correct participle for the sentence:
Air traffic control requested an ad-hoc inspection following a flight (reported/...
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Participle phrase question
We should use reporting:
Air traffic control requested ad-hoc inspection following a flight reporting an abnormal sound ...
Here the gerund-participial clause reporting an abnormal sound means the ...
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ellipsis of 'being' in "He sleeps with the window being open."
If by 'hard to see' you mean 'seldom seen', that's because it's incorrect English. The idiomatic usage is with the window open. Your third example is even more strange; you don't need a past tense to ...
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